
Going Back to the River
1990
First Published
3.55
Average Rating
95
Number of Pages
Feminist verse displays a command of poetic technique and structure as well as a richly ripening vision
Avg Rating
3.55
Number of Ratings
31
5 STARS
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Marilyn Hacker
Author · 19 books
Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator, critic, and professor of English. Her books of poetry include Presentation Piece (1974), which won the National Book Award, Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986), and Going Back to the River (1990). In 2009, Hacker won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne, which also garnered the first Robert Fagles Translation Prize from the National Poetry Series. In 2010, she received the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. She was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for her translation of Tales of A Severed Head by Rachida Madani.